?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=Working+Paper+Series+No.+38&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F6847%2F&rft.title=Baseline+Scenario+of+Postrainy+Season+Sorghum+Economy+in+Marathwada+Region+of+Maharashtra.+Working+Paper+Series+No.+38&rft.creator=Nagaraj%2C+N&rft.creator=More%2C+S&rft.creator=Haldar%2C+S&rft.creator=Bantilan%2C+M+C+S&rft.creator=Chandrakanth%2C+M+G&rft.subject=Agriculture-Farming%2C+Production%2C+Technology%2C+Economics&rft.description=Postrainy+season+sorghum+is+one+of+the+major+dietary+staple+cereal+crops+in+Marathwada%0D%0Aregion+supporting+food+and+fodder+security.+Currently%2C+the+productivity+levels+are+extremely%0D%0Alow+because+of+limited+adoption+of+dryland+technologies+by+the+poor.+Thus%2C+the+HOPE%0D%0Aproject+aimed+at+increasing+the+productivity+of+sorghum+and+pearl+millet+by+35-40%25%0D%0Aover+the+base+level+in+South+Asia+through+introducing+on-shelf+technology+and+improved%0D%0Amanagement+practices+in+the+targeted+clusters+over+a+period+of+four+years.+In+this+regard%2C%0D%0Athe+baseline+survey+was+conducted+in+the+primary+project+intervention+area+(HOPE)%0D%0Awhere+improved+technologies+have+been+introduced+and+in+matching+control+villages%0D%0Awith+comparable+agro-ecological+and+market+conditions+in+non-intervention+area+(non-%0D%0AHOPE)%2C+where+improved+technologies+have+not+been+made.+The+objective+of+the+baseline%0D%0Asurvey+was+to+appraise+the+existing+situation+of+the+targeted+cluster+villages+with+respect%0D%0Ato+adoption+of+technologies%2C+productivity%2C+income%2C+yield+gaps+and+other+socioeconomic%0D%0Aissues.+The+coverage+area+of+improved+rabi+sorghum+varieties+were+around+15%25+in+HOPE%0D%0Aand+5%25+in+non-HOPE+areas%2C+where+the+yield+gap+was+estimated+at+40%E2%80%9350%25+as+compared+to%0D%0Athe+potential+yield+for+the+improved+varieties.+The+productivity+of+rabi+sorghum+in+the+HOPE%0D%0Aarea+was+1.17+t%2Fha+and+in+the+non-HOPE+area+1.2+t%2Fha.+However%2C+in+the+HOPE+area+farmers%0D%0Aare+receiving+a+net+return+of+%60+2017+per+ha+and+in+the+non-HOPE+%60+2421+considering+all%0D%0Acosts.+The+annual+per+capita+income+in+the+HOPE+area+is+%60+32%2C029%2C+while+in+the+non-HOPE%0D%0Aarea%2C+it+is+%60+40%2C669%2C+of+which+65%25+is+derived+from+crop+enterprise+only.+There+is+significant%0D%0Ainvolvement+of+women+in+activities+such+as+land+preparation%2C+intercultural+operations%2C%0D%0Aharvesting+and+threshing.+Moisture+stress+especially+during+sowing+and%2For+terminal%0D%0Astage+and+shortage+of+labor+especially+during+harvesting+and+threshing+were+some+of+the%0D%0Akey+critical+constraints+expressed+by+the+farmers+in+adoption+of+improved+rabi+sorghum%0D%0Atechnologies.&rft.publisher=International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics&rft.date=2013&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F6847%2F7%2FMarathwada_wps38.pdf&rft.identifier=++Nagaraj%2C+N+and+More%2C+S+and+Haldar%2C+S+and+Bantilan%2C+M+C+S+and+Chandrakanth%2C+M+G++(2013)+Baseline+Scenario+of+Postrainy+Season+Sorghum+Economy+in+Marathwada+Region+of+Maharashtra.+Working+Paper+Series+No.+38.++Working+Paper.+International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics%2C+Patancheru%2C+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India.+++++&rft.relation=Working+Paper+Series+No.+38